Superior Court Judge Haley Fromholz’s recent ruling that four people can seek damages against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese o...

LOS ANGELES - County officials have refused to release a series of reports on how the county manages its multimillion-dollar l...

Focus Column – By Robert A. Steinberg – When you enter a mediation, you are negotiating with the mediator, not just the other ...

Forum Column — By Tammy Fox-Isicoff — Although comprehensive immigration reform is a must, no immigration reform would be bett...

Letter to the Editor - The Daily Journal is predictably myopic in its assessments of the best of this, and the best of that, o...

RIVERSIDE - The county's judge without a court is back on the bench.For the past month, Judge Gary Tranbarger has been barred ...

SAN JOSE - Two weeks ago, Morrison & Foerster touted what it characterized as a rare triumph: a decision by plaintiffs' la...

With no experience litigating civil rights suits, four associates from Davis, Wright & Tremaine emerged with a victory whe...

Forum Column — By C. Matthew Schulz — In the debate on immigration reform, little has been said about the danger posed to Amer...

Employment column — By Wendy M. Lazerson and Carlos Mino — A federal ruling approving a warrantless FBI search of an employee’...

SAN DIEGO - Judge Thomas Ashworth III could be considered a survivor by judicial standards. For 13 of his 16 years on the San ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California high-performance semiconductor company says it has won a significant victory in a patent...

Letter to the Editor - I took offense at the incredible suggestion that the court should somehow be harsher on homeless people...

The lawyer for former Brocade CEO Gregory Reyes argues to dismiss the criminal case against his client because the accounting ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A New York federal appeals court Thursday issued a major jurisdictional ruling that probably means billions of...

WASHINGTON - For the first time in 17 years, Congress is moving to substantially boost the ranks of the federal judiciary, inc...

VALENCIA - The bailiff led the young man into the courtroom, and Commissioner Kevil W. Martin called his case. ...

Former Justice Department official Monica M. Goodling told Congress Wednesday that she considered political affiliation when s...

LOS ANGELES - Around this time last year, Goodwin Procter's Century City office was just approaching its one-month anniversary...

Generation Y may be less loyal and more self-absorbed than preceding generations, but that hasn't stopped large law firms from...

LOS ANGELES - As a prominent civil-rights lawyer's federal criminal trial began Wednesday, prosecutors charged that he hid ass...

San Diego County will have to restructure its "last resort" health-care program for indigent residents, an appellate court rul...

Web Exclusive - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday appointed 14 judges to the Superior Court bench. Democrats and Republi...

Forum Column — By Linda F. Atcherley — A workers’ compensation judge’s decision means no valid permanent disability rating sch...

RIVERSIDE - A county audit of the public defender's office found "no hard evidence" that the department's lawyers represent cl...

Focus Column – By Susan E. Abitanta and Robert J. Drexler Jr. – The ‘Pioneer’ decision greatly aids class-action plaintiffs be...

LOS ANGELES - A recently revealed sexual relationship between a top-ranking prosecutor and his capital-murder-case witness is ...

WASHINGTON - A former Justice Department official gave her account Wednesday of how officials in Washington bypassed a commiss...

Web Exclusive - Judge Robert B. Freedman made a final plea late Wednesday not to be removed from the bench for blowing deadlin...

Judge Robert J. Anspach has won awards and praise for starting a program in Kern County that finds volunteers to mentor and ad...